Professor Inbar's evaluation is spot on. The Obama gang have plans to further their anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish agenda. I live in America and love my country but I see Obama changing all that is good and precious in America.
If Jerusalem is made into an international city it will mean the end of the Zionist dream and the final diaspora of Jews. If Israel is forced to absolutely rely on the good will of the current leadership in the USA it will be a dark day indeed. What is absent here in the USA are the raised voices of American Jews protesting this administration's policies with respect to Israel and by extension towards Jews. Obama, the consummate chameleon, studied at the feet of his guru Rashid Khalidi so what really can be expected of him except what he is doing in his present course of action. I beg Prime Minister Netanyahu not to ever negotiate away one piece of our Holy City. For 2,000 years we said next year in Jerusalem. We have Holy Jerusalem and please let us not lose our city of gold. Many in the Christian communities echo what I am saying and support Jewish control of the holy sites. I pray that it is not too late.

Jews try to remain inconspicuous and not make waves. They will have to make more than make waves now since the chameleon is hell-bent for leather to reduce Jews to dhimmi status worldwide. The Muslim world has mounted a masterful public relations attack on Israel for the past 20 years or so. Israel must counter that attack in a similar fashion or else the perception becomes the reality. The bitter irony is that the mega-wealthy Jewish community in Hollywood has financed the leftist president of the United States. It is fair to say that Israel faces a terrible situation. May Almighty G-d intervene and save His people.

It is now or never. Obama will say or do anything that will keep him in power. He won't let Jews stand in his way..

I wish I could write more expansively with layers of reasoning and logic, but to me it reduces to something very basic. Obama is driven by power - his thirst for it and his deference to it in others. The voice behind his disastrous Middle East policies is Raul Emanuel, which is shameful for both men.

My only hope is that the meandering and contradictory positions Obama has proffered will collapse under their own weight.

Prof Barnett's suggestions confirms the observation that some comments are so stupid that they could only have been made by an academic. The suggestions are internally consistent, but as Prof Inbar points out they ignore external reality. They also tend ot ignore what Israelis demand, treating their possesion of Jerusalem and the religious freedom under Jewish rule there as something that can be ignored. The utter chutzpah of putting demands on Israel as though it had no choice but to comply, in opposition to all standards of justice and international practice is beyond belief! Israel's response must be a firm, polite NO! to the hostile appeasing meddlers. Jerusalem is Jewish and must remain so forever.

The President of the United States of America, Mr. Barack Obama, has now gone too far in telling Israel what to do with Their Own Land and how to live their lives. It is no less than a megalomanic quest to control another Nation, and that is a perversion of International Laws. It, in fact, implies the essence of a Declaration of War. Thankfully we are still close allies, but the President, his think tanks, and now Harvard University need to leave the necessary wisdom to Israel to determine how to continue to maintain Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) as a peaceful, Jewish Israeli and Undivided Capital of Israel where for the forty plus years of its control of the city, there has been harmony and all religions are welcome to come and Pray as is done for their respective faiths. HAMAS insists on continuing to conduct its terror campaign until it has brought Israel to its knees, and the Palestinian Authority's Fatah continues to brag and boast about its terrolrist bombings and other forms of attacks against Israel such as "the sadistic murder of two Israelis in Ramallah in 2000" ("Arutz Sheva," "Abbas's Fatah Brags About Anti-Israel Terror," June 26, 2009, p.3)." But, it is Mr. Michael Barnett who has just written for the "Middle East Strategy at Harvard" who fails in his bid to utterly at all accurately assess the issues in the Israeli-Palestinian arena and consequently and of its own failes inexorably to determine any form of a viable approach to the question of: "What to do with Jerusalem?" though he is quick to make his pronoucements though he admits to not having gotten any form of "a representative sample of Palestinians or Israelis" (Middle East Strategy at Harvard," "Olin Institute: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs," "Israel should hand off Palestinians," pp.1-2) with which to make his report and to come away with his conclusions. Instead, he seeks deep within the markings of his pineal gland, insufficient data in hand, and a conclusively failed research methodology and procedures, and then seeks deep within his own head and out of his own fear and anxiety ("Middle East Strategy at Harvard," "Olin Institute: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs," "Israel should hand off Palestinians," p.1), has prejudicial biases toward what is going on in the Middle East and the reality on the ground between Israel and the Palestinians and projects his own unconscious processes into a theatre that is being maintained exceedingly well by the Israels, who have now for forty years plus made Jerusalem into a flourishing and thriving City where persons of all Religious Faiths can most readily come and Pray at their respective places of worship, unlike what it had previously been while under Jordanian control when Jews were forbidden to go near to any of the majority of their Holy Sites and were sometimes prevented in toto from being permitted to go to visit their Holy Sites whatever at all. Additionally, many of the Jewish religious sites--synagogues, cemetaries, etc. were desecrated by the Jordanians and the Palestinians in the most abominable of fashions, something the Israelis have never done whatsoever at all. The Israelis have handled Jerusalem marvelously for the past forty plus years: "if it ain't broken, then don't fix it." Except that now arrogant, greedy and narcissistic world leaders are seeking to gain a foothold on the "world" of glory by becoming the first ones to "solve all the problems of the Israelis and the Palestinians" and to gain world-wide acclaim for their deeds. Stay out of Israel's affairs. They are the ones under attack. They have never initiated any form of an attack whatsoever against the Palestinians who have proved themselves to be incapable at: (1) State-building, and (2) are solely failed peace partners, greedily only demanding more and more territory in their Jihadic quest. "And Fight those who have not faith in God [Allah], nor in the Hereafter, and (who) forbid not what God and His Prophet have forbidden and (who) are committed to the religion of truth [the Muslims are adamant and distinctive that the only viable religion is Islam, and is the only 'religion of truth' such that all others must be most readily destroyed by whatever means possible], of those who have brought the Book ("Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and Its Legitimacy in the Quran" by Ayatullah Morteza Mutahhari, translated by Mohammad Salman Tawhidi, published by the Islamic Propagation Organization, the Islamic Republic of Iran,1405-1985, p.2) , until they pay tribute by hand and they are the low (Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and Its Legitimacy in the Quran," p. 2)." These are not are allies. These are not our partners, certainly not in peace. Their only goal is world-conquest, the bringing back of the 12th Imam from his well deep within the ground so as to lead the Islamic people onto victory and world supremacy, and make Islam the one and only "true" or permissible religion in the world. "Yes," Mr. Obama, they must be stopped.

It has become perfectly evident that Barack Obama has accepted the 1960's New Left narrative of Israeli oppression and recalcitrance towards the Palestinians and is thus totally responsible for the lack of progress towards peace in the Middle East. Mr. Obama has also accepted the Arab narrative regarding Israel, that is that Zionism is racism of a particularly toxic brand. And worst of all, Mr. Obama is suspicious and antagonistice towards Jews in general, even his court Jews and Democratic apparatchiks like Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod, as a result of his decades long involvement with really bitter anti Semites like Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayres. To Mr. Obama Israel is the real rogue state, poisoning the entire Middle East with it's aggressive militarism that terrorizes the Palestinians and forces them to take whatever measures they can to defend themselves. And if you think I am exaggerating, just read his Cairo speech and his glorification of the Palestinians as victims of the Israelis and the Jews.

Since Mr. Obama set the example of apologizing for America, as an American citizen I deeply apologize for him and his attitude towards Israel. He is so totally clueless it is scary. His ego and his socialist, One Word agenda will someday get the best of him! Jerusalem belongs to Israel by the Almighty's decree and not even one grain of sand should EVER be given up to anyone. I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and it is my heartfelt dream to someday visit the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God bless and keep you all.